[erlang-questions] Adding new operators?

[Justin Calleja]

ahh yes Anthony's right, my bad.

Ok, so this is the first thing that comes to mind then, don't know if it'll
help:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/22451864/Hacking-Erlang

Regards,
Justin


On 10 April 2013 18:31, Anthony Ramine <n.oxyde@REDACTED> wrote:

> That wouldn't work because you need one new token per operator you want to
>  add to the language, parse transforms work on abstract syntax trees which
> are returned by the parser, a level higher than tokens.
>
> On the other hand he can also abuse existing expressions by using them in
> ways which are illegal in Erlang.
>
> For example he could write a parse transform for a parallel send operator
> like this:
>
>         +[Pids/parallel] ! Message.
>
> This is beyond ugly but at least it's quite obvious that some spooky
> action at the distance is going on.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Anthony Ramine
>
> Le 10 avr. 2013 à 16:41, Justin Calleja <calleja.justin@REDACTED> a
> écrit :
>
> > Hi David,
> >
> > You should be able to do that with a parse_transform/2. Look up parse
> transform: you basically get to implement a function which the compiler
> calls at compilation time passing it a formal representation of the source
> code it's compiling (a.k.a abstract forms... though I'm not entirely sure
> about the terminology).
> >
> > You can then use the erl_syntax module to manipulate these forms.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Justin
> >
> >
> > On 8 April 2013 08:21, Anthony Ramine <n.oxyde@REDACTED> wrote:
> > Hello David,
> >
> > A fancy way to extend the Erlang syntax would be to have something like
> Camlp4, a powerful and extensible preprocessor for OCaml. It has a powerful
> quotation system which it itself uses to implements its parser construct,
> to extend OCaml's syntax at compile-time. I have began writing a quotation
> system for Erlang but didn't have the time finish it yet [1].
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/nox/otp/tree/brackets
> >
> > --
> > Anthony Ramine
> >
> > Le 8 avr. 2013 à 02:12, David Goehrig <dave@REDACTED> a écrit :
> >
> > > Next step is integrating into the stack better. But the question
> remains, what is the best way to add a new operator.
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